Sweet Chili Chicken Stir Fry

We make a stir fry at least once a week. It’s a great way to use up leftover ingredients in the fridge, plus it’s healthy. I’ve tried so many different ways to make stir fry, by using different sauces and combinations of sauces, but there’s one recipe that I keep going back to time and time again.

And that favorite go-to stir fry sauce is sweet chili sauce. It’s the main ingredient in our favorite stir fry, sweet chili chicken. It’s not too sweet, not too spicy, and perfect for the whole family. I also love how I can make this dish with any combination of vegetables and it always turns out amazing.

To start this recipe, I just stir fry my chicken with a little canola oil, salt and pepper. Then I add my veggies and wait for them to cook a little before adding the sauce. I like to add a little soy sauce, a hot chili sauce and of course, sweet chili sauce. I then add just a touch of water to help get the sauce moving around everything, and then wait until the sauce thickens before serving.

My husband loves spicy foods, and so do I. So for seeing, we add a little extra of that amazing chili sauce. Lingham’s Hot Sauce (1 x 12.6 OZ) is my absolute favorite for this dish. You can buy it through the link provided at Amazon. It has a slight sweetness that pairs perfectly with regular sweet chili sauce. Plus it’s loaded with hot chili goodness, so a little goes a long way.

Sweet Chili sauce is a popular sauce in Mayalsiain cuisine. I’ve just recently started learning about Maylasian cuisine and have found it to be so interesting. This is one of the first dishes I’ve made that has a Malaysian influence.

Malaysia is located in the South China Sea and their cuisine is a fascinating blend of Malay, Chinese, and Indian food traditions, with Indonesian, Thai, Portuguese and Middle Eastern influences. The cuisine combines complex flavors like curry, turmeric, cardamom, lemongrass, ginger and tamarind (to name a few) to create dishes that have multiple layers of flavors.

The Malaysia Kitchen for the World is a national initiative of the Malaysian Government that aims to educate and inform consumers about Malaysian cuisine and Malaysian restaurants.And did you know the tastes of Malaysian cuisine have been rated the number three top-trending flavors by the National Restaurant Association! Pretty cool huh?

This recipe uses basic vegetables and rice that are used in Malaysian cooking, as well as sweet chili sauce, chili hot sauce and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet and spicy and the aroma is wonderful.

My parents spent the first couple years of their marriage living in Malaysia, so sweet chili sauce was a staple in our house when I was growing up. I haven’t tried this brand, but will definitely keep an eye out for it!

I am so in love with this one. My daughter is a super picky eater. She is now 21 and still can be challenging when it comes to dinner. She was off meat most of her young life, but now eats it. Stir fries are her absolute favourite so I try to make it a couple of times a week. Then she takes leftovers in her lunch. She’s one of those eat the same thing all the time kind of people. I’m going to show her this one so we can add a little variety in her life. And so Mom can make this asap. Ha. I’m not above ulterior motives. A girls gotta eat.

I love spicy and sweet chili sauce is my absolute favorite! It’s perfect with this stir-fry.

My name is Angie and I’m so glad you’ve stopped by my little corner of the web. Eclectic Recipes is my personal food blog where I share the recipes from my kitchen. I absolutely love spending time in the kitchen cooking, baking and developing recipes for family and friends. (read more)